For discussion not regarding the reviews. Please put spoilers in spoiler tags. Game unlocks in a couple hours for those who got the deluxe edition

Looking forward to living my dream of being a space trucker.

Deluxe edition people get to play it a week early?

Yes. One hour

been waiting nearly a decade for this, let's go!!

Just started preload; 117ish gb.

What an unfortunate weekend to be raining everyday.

I didn't even know you could play early and it worked out so perfect bc my gf is going to Florida to visit her mom for the long weekend so I will prob rot and play

Going to the dispensary and liquor store after work tomorrow so I can maximize my cosmic exploration

Might try it on the Xbox also for ****s and giggles

Waiting for it to unpack on steam ... Taking a while cottdamn. Wanna suss out the game and see what's up. Gonna be a nice little weekend of testing out starfield and playing bg3.

damn, guess it's getting about that time i need to upgrade my computer i guess. i have a geforce 2700 super, and it seems to be struggling with the graphics.

Try deleting some of the volumes of ghey porn off your ssd that might help.

Played it a bit


some quick thots


- Graphics are very impressive. It feels like a next gen Bethesda game. I'm playing on PC 4K resolution with a mix of medium / high / ultra

- Performance seems ok thus far for me ... Not sure what frames are, but it feels smooth, however I did get an odd slow down here and there. It however feels 60

- The materials work on stuff is incredible. Very lifelike, all look distinct, the helmets, spacesuits and random junk are really well modeled.

- Character models look good

- The worldbuilding and lore is pretty damn cool so far, there's lots of things going on, being said and I'm trying to take it all in ... Quite overwhelming in a good sense

- Combat is servicable, it's a huge upgrade from Fallout and plays like a decent shooter ... But I'm worried how exactly this combat can be fun and fresh many hours in .... If I have to do keep shooting people for over 40 hours, it's gonna get old super quick.





What I don't like -

- I cant change my graphics resolution? It's stuck at 4k and I want to turn it to 1440p ... Does anyone know how to change it on PC?

- The tutorials are complete ASS ... It's not explained well at all. Some things are explained, but I really find that the game does an annoying job of telling me what I can do / what I need to do ... I'm kind of having to figure out things myself.

- The UI is horrid ... Like really bad ... Just everything from trying to sort out inventory, trying to get to menus and everything .... It just feels unintuitive compared to Skyrim / Fallout .... Maybe I just need to get used to it, but everything just feels like it takes way too many clicks and it feels really cumbersome

- The map is horrendous ... I don't even know if there is a map lol ... Trying to track quests or just figure out which quest I should go for feels extremely annoying

- Ship combat is boring and lame as fuk .... I don't wan to do this and I hope I'm not forced into it .... Like Todd dude, I don't care about ship combat, just let me explore, meet people and do interesting quests.

- Some of the character models can look pretty weird ... As I mentioned before, some look really good and others are Bethesda level nightmare fuel

- The lip syncing is pretty bad, not a huge deal, but hopefully they fix it.








I'm still very early into the game but I'm very positive about it and honestly I can wait to get back in and explore some more. So far this seems like a solid entry and new IP from Bethesda.


Between this and BG3 ... I'm in heaven.

I'm having a very similar experience.
Completely agree about the map and UI. Surely they'll make a better map, this thing is terrible.

Disagree about the combat though, the weapons feel different and the audio is great. It's a lot better than I thought it would be.

How much you give BG3 /10 and how much Stafield so far /10?

BG3 is an easy 10/10. There's a reason why I keep calling it the game of the generation so far. I don't see any game surpassing it anytime soon ... It scratches all my itches.


And it's gonna be a while before we see a game as good as BG3.




I haven't played enough of starfield to give it an actual proper score .... But based on first impressions it's a 7 or 8 /10 for me. It seems very promising and fun, but I also see some really annoying stuff and we all know for a fact that Bethesda is trash and lazy when it comes to fixing their games or listening to the community, so I don't see any of the major issues/gripes being fixed without user mods.

How are you guys juggling the side quests and main quest?
Running around with the British sloot now, don't really want to hang out with the other 3 from the troupe.

I'm finding it very hard to sell or all the stuff I've collected.

what's all this talk about there being no map? how does it work?

There is no local map.

If you've played Witcher 3, you have the world map, but imagine when you go to Novigrad or Sekllige you lose the map and just have a compass.
Also, you have to activate this compass and it limits your movements in the game.

It's pretty bad. I'm sure someone can explain it better.

hmmmm

don't even know what to think of this tbh

They give you a watch which acts as guide and takes up a ridiculous amount of the screen. But it really only is useful for telling you your O2/CO2 levels (which is basically stamina in this game)
Like Bongso said, the UI is terrible. But it's not gamebreaking. It would just be nice if console brahs got some options to make changes to it like in other games.

Been playing since release last night and it’s amazing.

It’s only getting better with progression. It’s a very slow start and if you aren’t into Bethesda games then skip it. This will be their best game imo, the graphics and story so far are both 9/10’s.

As far as bugs I’ve had basically zero in 8 hrs of play time on Xbox Series X. The only real issue for me so far are the companions being in the way here and there but not so much so that it’s unbearable.

Overall I’d give it an 8.5/10 (so far). The biggest let down imo is the actual ship and space exploration being more limited than I’d like. With that being said, they’ve made it very convenient to fast travel basically everywhere. I’ve seen “walking simulator” reports and I haven’t experienced that at all.

TLDR 8.5/10 for now at 8 hrs in. It is just my personal opinion so far and I believe this will be a srs contender for goty.

Bethesda should've collaborated with No man's sky.

I didn’t give no man’s sky enough time to gauge it fairly. I also forgot about the map situation in Starfield until I read other post in this thread. And I agree 100%, no idea what they were thinking with the local map. Maybe you unlock a better one later or something. The solar system map is fine, it’s the local one that makes no sense. It’s useless. It’s a really big weakness for such a good game.

So I finished the “into” and am making my character. Only like 30 min in

What's that blurry ass image in 6st place?

Edit: whoops

</3


My heart when scammer decides to go into Starfield when Baldcel gate 3 is coming to his PS5 in a couple days.

Metroid Prime hnnngggfff

Brootal

I have too much to play tbh

Pm me your xcel and ps name bby

lmao sure brah that's why shes coming down here

she's just max'ing cock explosions brah


j/k theres nothing but old people here.